Word: kaput
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...Selling failed banks is never a profitable business. But recently, as the credit crunch has gotten crunchier, the cost of cotton-balling kaput countinghouses has gotten a lot costlier. The FDIC had an average loss (based on deposits) of nearly 30% for the 23 bank deals it did in 2008, for which the FDIC released details, according to financial industry consulting firm Ely & Co. That is more than double the average loss of 13% the agency registered on bank rescues in the 17 years prior...
...some aspects of the national conversation between homosexuals and those who oppose or fear them haven't changed. Gay and faggot are widespread terms of abuse. Famous actors and singers won't declare their sexual orientation out of concern that their careers would be kaput. There are camps with regimens to "cure" kids of gayness. John Briggs and his national counterpart, Anita Bryant, aren't spearheading the outspoken antagonism to gay civil rights, but the Mormon Church is. It poured $20 million into promoting Proposition 8, this year's California initiative to outlaw gay marriage. Fear lost...
...stranglehold that only occasionally seemed in jeopardy during the past decade-plus, when Dartmouth challenged Princeton in 2000, 2001, and 2004, or when Cornell met Harvard in the ’05 ICS, is now suddenly and officially kaput...
...took a rodeo to Broadway (for three weeks), headlined the first big original musical for television (some considered it a fiasco) and in 1959 fronted a one-season sitcom (where her domineering attitude had other actors referring to her as Nero). Still in her 30s, she was essentially kaput in show business...
...exams and then picking up again and...bam! It’s over. Six more weekends is all it takes to play the rest, 37 days to go from 2-0 (the Big Green is good at generating confidence, or false hope) to just 0. No games left. Done. Kaput...